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Amazon wants to demolish your tech debt like it did this AWS server - here's the plan

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Amazon unveils agentic AI to tackle massive legacy tech debt.

Transform modernizes Windows stacks and slashes costly licensing.

New AI agents migrate code at speeds humans can't match.

Well... that happened. PR folks the world over can take a lesson from how Amazon announced the enhancement of its AWS Transform service. They hauled an old AWS server 150 feet up on a crane in the middle of Las Vegas, and then dropped it on a pile of explosives.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you get the attention of tech journalists. I mean, dropping a server 150 feet and blowing it up is a happy place I didn't even know I had.

Also: Amazon says new DevOps agents need no babysitting - you can try them here

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